Miami Vice fic: Redemption by Grace
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mxcatmoonTitle: Redemption by Grace
Fandom: Miami Vice
Author: Cat Moon
Rating: PG-13
Words: 1729
Characters/Pairing: Sonny/Rico (friendship or more, open to interpretation)
Summary: Sonny returns from his fishing trip with his son to discover that in his absence, his partner had been kidnapped, traumatized, and nearly killed by an ex-con turned vigilante that Rico had put behind bars. He now has to come to terms with it and hopefully help Rico do the same.
Notes: There, fixed it…. It being the episode “The Cell Within,” where Rico is kidnapped by an ex-con who’s decided to play judge, jury, and executioner for other criminals. The thing that needed fixing was an OOC Sonny Crockett who showed almost zero concern that his partner was going to the house of a man Rico had put into prison and who’d threatened to kill him. This was not our overprotective Sonny and needed explaining.
Song: All That Matters, by Richie Sambora
( Redemption by Grace )
Me-and-media update
Mar. 17th, 2026 03:49 pmchina_shopPrevious poll review
In the Fitness trackers poll, 18% of respondents regularly use a fitness tracker to monitor their activity, 10% also use an app, and 16% use the pedometer on their phone; 48% said "other no", proving that I really should have got more granular (and emphatic) for non-adopters. Sorry! (For me, I enjoy some of the "gamification of exercise" parts, but when Fitbit eventually insists that I have to merge my data with my Google account in a few months, I plan to delete the app and use my device as a standalone thingummy.)
In ticky-boxes, FANDOM SPARKLES came second to hugs hugs hugs, 56% to 68%. "I genuflect to the sanctity of the ticky-box" is a reference to/misquote of a line from a Courtney Milan romance. Thank you for your votes! ♥
Reading
Almost nothing. Andrew and I started (barely) The Warrior's Apprentice by Bujold, the first Miles Vorkosigan book, in audio, read by Grover Gardner. And in ebook I've just started Courtney Milan's m/m novella, The Pursuit of... set during the American War of Independence.
Kdramas
I was sure I'd have drifted away from One Spring Night by now in favour of the new thing, but I'm semi-managing to watch that and Undercover Miss Hong in tandem. I love both of them in very different ways. OSN is slow and as full of social nuance as an Austen novel; UMH is silly corporate spy shenanigans and found family.
(In Undercover Miss Hong, the 35-year-old lead is undercover as a 20-year-old, and every time she glances around quickly and her shoulders move too, I think, yep, it's the stiff neck that gives you away. #relatable)
As predicted, Pru and I started Love Scout. I am immediately obsessed with it all over again, ahhhhhh! How am I going to bear the wait between watchings??
Other TV
A bit more of Ponies, but it's so tense that I keep avoiding it. It's only an 8-episode season, and we're halfway, so I should probably bite the bullet and power through.
Episode 2 of R.J. Decker was terribly written, to the point where I don't know if I can keep going. (I think the Movie Briefs podcast may have ruined me for PI shows: I kept going, "Is this witness tampering?" and "Stop revealing case information to suspects!")
More of The Pitt (I am worried about Robbie) (no spoilers, please!!) and Cheers.
And last night we watched the bizarre combination of:
We've also watched a bunch of stand-up lately: Marc Maron, Rose Matafeo, probably some others.
Audio entertainment
"Corporations have learned that when you have total buy-in, from everyone, and if you can make it impossible for people to not use your product, you determine what culture is. You just do." Gita Jackson on Tech Won't Save Us. (I am so grateful to Dreamwidth for not having an algorithm!)
Online life
Sign-ups are open for the 520 Day Guardian Reverse Exchange!! Yay!! This is our eighth year, and it's always a great time.
Writing/making things
I finished a round of rewrites on one of my started-for-Yuletide fics and sent it back to beta; now I need to apply the same rewriting strategy to my other started-for-Yuletide fic too. 520 Day assignments will out by the 8th, so that's my deadline for these: three weeks. In theory, that should be do-able.
I'm averaging one fic a month so far this year, which is pretty slow-paced for me, but it isn't nothing.
Life/health/mental state things
( [Dog in burning house; everything is fine.gif, local politics edition] )
Link dump
The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited by Gita Jackson | Heroes Choose Danger - How to Make Your Passive Hero Active [Screenwriting Tips] by![[youtube.com profile]](https://youtube.com/favicon.ico)
heyjameshurst (Youtube, 12:57 min) | Night Train with Wyatt Cenac ep 1 (stand-up series made for streaming, but then the streamer went bust).
Good things
520 Day, yay!! FTH, eeee!! Writers' Hour continues to keep me showing up; it's a structure that works really well for me. Kdramas and those of you who recommend them to me. AO3 comments on some of my favourites of my fics. Sunday's long bike ride to buy the best hot cross buns didn't have any negative arm/wrist consequences. The air fryer I inherited is ridiculously tiny, but I'm enjoying it. Good weather. Reasonably good health. (*knocks on wood*) Cat! Andrew!
In the Fitness trackers poll, 18% of respondents regularly use a fitness tracker to monitor their activity, 10% also use an app, and 16% use the pedometer on their phone; 48% said "other no", proving that I really should have got more granular (and emphatic) for non-adopters. Sorry! (For me, I enjoy some of the "gamification of exercise" parts, but when Fitbit eventually insists that I have to merge my data with my Google account in a few months, I plan to delete the app and use my device as a standalone thingummy.)
In ticky-boxes, FANDOM SPARKLES came second to hugs hugs hugs, 56% to 68%. "I genuflect to the sanctity of the ticky-box" is a reference to/misquote of a line from a Courtney Milan romance. Thank you for your votes! ♥
Reading
Almost nothing. Andrew and I started (barely) The Warrior's Apprentice by Bujold, the first Miles Vorkosigan book, in audio, read by Grover Gardner. And in ebook I've just started Courtney Milan's m/m novella, The Pursuit of... set during the American War of Independence.
Kdramas
I was sure I'd have drifted away from One Spring Night by now in favour of the new thing, but I'm semi-managing to watch that and Undercover Miss Hong in tandem. I love both of them in very different ways. OSN is slow and as full of social nuance as an Austen novel; UMH is silly corporate spy shenanigans and found family.
(In Undercover Miss Hong, the 35-year-old lead is undercover as a 20-year-old, and every time she glances around quickly and her shoulders move too, I think, yep, it's the stiff neck that gives you away. #relatable)
As predicted, Pru and I started Love Scout. I am immediately obsessed with it all over again, ahhhhhh! How am I going to bear the wait between watchings??
Other TV
A bit more of Ponies, but it's so tense that I keep avoiding it. It's only an 8-episode season, and we're halfway, so I should probably bite the bullet and power through.
Episode 2 of R.J. Decker was terribly written, to the point where I don't know if I can keep going. (I think the Movie Briefs podcast may have ruined me for PI shows: I kept going, "Is this witness tampering?" and "Stop revealing case information to suspects!")
More of The Pitt (I am worried about Robbie) (no spoilers, please!!) and Cheers.
And last night we watched the bizarre combination of:
- the pilot of The Madison, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell, a gorgeously cinematic show about loss, grief, and New York "society" people dealing with nature in Montana. It's like the love child of A River Somewhere (Australian fly-fishing show which I happen to own on DVD), Schitt's Creek (but without the humour; just the rich people out of their comfort zone part), and [something dealing with partner-loss], and
- The Naked Gun, starring Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson (surprisingly watchable; made us laugh).
We've also watched a bunch of stand-up lately: Marc Maron, Rose Matafeo, probably some others.
Audio entertainment
"Corporations have learned that when you have total buy-in, from everyone, and if you can make it impossible for people to not use your product, you determine what culture is. You just do." Gita Jackson on Tech Won't Save Us. (I am so grateful to Dreamwidth for not having an algorithm!)
Online life
Sign-ups are open for the 520 Day Guardian Reverse Exchange!! Yay!! This is our eighth year, and it's always a great time.
Writing/making things
I finished a round of rewrites on one of my started-for-Yuletide fics and sent it back to beta; now I need to apply the same rewriting strategy to my other started-for-Yuletide fic too. 520 Day assignments will out by the 8th, so that's my deadline for these: three weeks. In theory, that should be do-able.
I'm averaging one fic a month so far this year, which is pretty slow-paced for me, but it isn't nothing.
Life/health/mental state things
( [Dog in burning house; everything is fine.gif, local politics edition] )
Link dump
The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited by Gita Jackson | Heroes Choose Danger - How to Make Your Passive Hero Active [Screenwriting Tips] by
Good things
520 Day, yay!! FTH, eeee!! Writers' Hour continues to keep me showing up; it's a structure that works really well for me. Kdramas and those of you who recommend them to me. AO3 comments on some of my favourites of my fics. Sunday's long bike ride to buy the best hot cross buns didn't have any negative arm/wrist consequences. The air fryer I inherited is ridiculously tiny, but I'm enjoying it. Good weather. Reasonably good health. (*knocks on wood*) Cat! Andrew!
Poll #34375 Smoke alarms
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 30
Smoke alarms
View Answers
I have some on ceilings/walls
23 (76.7%)
I have some in piles around the place
5 (16.7%)
I have an inadequate number / inadequate coverage
3 (10.0%)
nope
2 (6.7%)
when one goes off, I assume it's serious and take action
7 (23.3%)
when one goes off, I assume it's a battery issue and silence it / take it off the wall
12 (40.0%)
my place/building has built-in alarms, and I trust them
4 (13.3%)
my place/building has built-in alarms, and they go off all the time, argh
0 (0.0%)
other
1 (3.3%)
ticky-box full of pizza, yeah!
16 (53.3%)
ticky-box full of iridescent bubbles
21 (70.0%)
ticky-box full of chopsticks
14 (46.7%)
ticky-box full of hiking
14 (46.7%)
ticky-box full of hugs
24 (80.0%)
10trueloves: overprotective
Mar. 16th, 2026 08:25 pmsenmutAO3 Link | Reasons (300 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) [2020]
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dinah Lance ~ Renee Montoya
Characters: Dinah Lance, Renee Montoya
Additional Tags: Triple Drabble, Canon Typical Violence, Complicated Relationships
Summary:
"What the fuck was that?"
Renee looked at the singer turned vigilante and didn't have a great answer for her, Dinah just knew, seeing it in the woman's fading fear — for Dinah — and the drop of her eyes.
"Got a little nervy is all," she decided to say. "Cop reflexes, all that."
Dinah's eyes went narrow, before she sucked in a breath and spun away, unleashing the full Cry on the alley, stopping the gang advance, pinning several with trash bins and debris from the sheer force of it.
Her gaze flicked to the rapist-murderer laying there, dead from a single shot through his forehead.
"Let's get outta here." She stalked off, knowing good and damn well no one would look too close into the death, that Renee wouldn't pay the price for the killing —
— but Dinah would have rather never have been the reason Renee squeezed off the round.
Renee followed; Dinah hadn't told her not to, and they really needed to hash this out without Harley or the kid or anyone else butting in.
"You held your mom's death against me for years."
The quiet words, spoken three blocks over, threw cold water on Dinah's temper.
"I don't. Not now. She… she made choices too."
"Yeah, but… I knew what those choices cost you, and I hate it. I can't… you… I need you to make it out of this shit alive."
Dinah took a breath, then another, before she put a hand on Renee's forearm. "Goes both ways, now. I need you to keep breathing, kicking ass with me, and make it count when we finally decide we can walk away.
"Not for mom. For me."
"Yeah, I get that. I'm going to try harder to remember you make your own choices, but it's hard."
"Always is."
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) [2020]
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dinah Lance ~ Renee Montoya
Characters: Dinah Lance, Renee Montoya
Additional Tags: Triple Drabble, Canon Typical Violence, Complicated Relationships
Summary:
Dinah can't handle being the reason... but can see why.
Reasons
"What the fuck was that?"
Renee looked at the singer turned vigilante and didn't have a great answer for her, Dinah just knew, seeing it in the woman's fading fear — for Dinah — and the drop of her eyes.
"Got a little nervy is all," she decided to say. "Cop reflexes, all that."
Dinah's eyes went narrow, before she sucked in a breath and spun away, unleashing the full Cry on the alley, stopping the gang advance, pinning several with trash bins and debris from the sheer force of it.
Her gaze flicked to the rapist-murderer laying there, dead from a single shot through his forehead.
"Let's get outta here." She stalked off, knowing good and damn well no one would look too close into the death, that Renee wouldn't pay the price for the killing —
— but Dinah would have rather never have been the reason Renee squeezed off the round.
Renee followed; Dinah hadn't told her not to, and they really needed to hash this out without Harley or the kid or anyone else butting in.
"You held your mom's death against me for years."
The quiet words, spoken three blocks over, threw cold water on Dinah's temper.
"I don't. Not now. She… she made choices too."
"Yeah, but… I knew what those choices cost you, and I hate it. I can't… you… I need you to make it out of this shit alive."
Dinah took a breath, then another, before she put a hand on Renee's forearm. "Goes both ways, now. I need you to keep breathing, kicking ass with me, and make it count when we finally decide we can walk away.
"Not for mom. For me."
"Yeah, I get that. I'm going to try harder to remember you make your own choices, but it's hard."
"Always is."
Daily Check-In
Mar. 16th, 2026 05:59 pmstarwatcher posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
fandom_checkinThis is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Monday, March 16, to midnight on Tuesday, March 17. (8pm Eastern Time).
Poll #34374 Daily Check-in
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 26
How are you doing?
I am OK.
17 (65.4%)
I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
9 (34.6%)
I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)
How many other humans live with you?
I am living single.
9 (34.6%)
One other person.
11 (42.3%)
More than one other person.
6 (23.1%)
Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
In summary
Mar. 16th, 2026 10:13 pmnanila
I am in the middle of writing three different posts about the whirlwind of the last two weeks, but unfortunately the storm won't pass until the end of the month. In the meantime, Comet here sums things up.
Poll: Opinions on clothes & other things
Mar. 17th, 2026 10:44 amchina_shop posting in sid_guardianPoll #34373 Clothes
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10
How emphatic are your opinions on Shen Wei’s Haixing clothes?
View Answers
Not (clothes are clothes)
1 (10.0%)
Not with a few exceptions (accessories)
0 (0.0%)
Not with a few exceptions (outfits)
1 (10.0%)
Somewhat
2 (20.0%)
Very
4 (40.0%)
Extremely
2 (20.0%)
I will fight you!
0 (0.0%)
I didn't use to, but fandom has made me care
1 (10.0%)
How emphatic are your opinions on Zhao Yunlan's clothes?
View Answers
Not (clothes are clothes)
1 (10.0%)
Not with a few exceptions
1 (10.0%)
Somewhat
4 (40.0%)
Very
3 (30.0%)
Extremely
1 (10.0%)
I've papered my bedroom with screencaps of him in that grey sweater and distressed jeans
2 (20.0%)
What does Zhao Yunlan find sexiest about the Envoy? (check all that apply)
View Answers
mystery
7 (70.0%)
super-strength
4 (40.0%)
other powers
2 (20.0%)
authority
6 (60.0%)
mercy
6 (60.0%)
mouth
6 (60.0%)
eyelashes
7 (70.0%)
those slight, faint-hint-of-amusement smiles
7 (70.0%)
weapon
1 (10.0%)
the fact that Zhao Yunlan's father would strongly disapprove
3 (30.0%)
other (please specify in comments)
1 (10.0%)
Which of these best describes you?
View Answers
I speak/read Mandarin well / It's my first language
0 (0.0%)
I'm learning Mandarin
3 (30.0%)
I'm learning Mandarin because of Guardian
1 (10.0%)
I've picked up a few words
5 (50.0%)
I don't know any Mandarin but I'd like to learn
0 (0.0%)
Don’t know anything, languages are haaard
1 (10.0%)
No Mandarin, but I know (an)other Asian language(s)
2 (20.0%)
Other
0 (0.0%)
(no subject)
Mar. 16th, 2026 12:14 pmgreghousesgfI'm cooking my lunch right now, later this afternoon I'm going to get a few groceries. I also have to take out the garbage.
Chat corner, informed
Mar. 16th, 2026 07:56 pmannathecrow posting in dreamwarsHi,
this is your weekly Star Wars chat post. Do you have news? Or... olds? *sad trumpet*
~ ~ ~
Bad jokes aside, what's your relationship to SW-related news? As in, how do you find out that Disney is Doing Something Star Wars - a new book is coming out, a new movie/show is announced...? Do you actively follow some sources? Do you learn about it on social media, or from a more well-informed friend? Or maybe you don't hear about it at all?
Releases 0.9.453 - 0.9.456: Change Log
Mar. 16th, 2026 05:13 pm![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
ao3_news_feedWe started the year with some major improvements to our bookmark search, making it possible to sort and filter bookmarks by word count, and deployed several batches of fixes to strengthen site security and improve performance. These release notes collect all changes made to AO3 in January.
Shoutout to first-time contributors Juliette Curran, KooShnoo, Mae Light, and sanchal ghosh! Thank you for your work.
Credits
- Coders: Brian Austin, Cubostar, FlyingFalcon, irrationalpie, Juliette Curran, kiyazz, KooShnoo, Mae Light, sanchal ghosh, Sarken, Shakelush
- Code reviewers: anmazz, Bilka, Brian Austin, james_, KooShnoo, lydia-theda, ömer faruk, Sarken
- Testers: ana, Bilka, Brian Austin, choux, killiane, Lute, lydia-theda, marcus8448, ömer faruk, slavalamp, wichard, Yuca
Details
Release 0.9.453
On January 21, we deployed some major improvements to our bookmark search, including the ability to filter and sort bookmarks by word count!
- [AO3-6301] - Series blurbs would list all fandom tags from the works included in that series, even if a work was still saved as an unpublished draft. Now series blurbs only display fandoms from posted works.
- [AO3-6303] - Series blurbs would also always list fandoms from works that were restricted to logged-in users. We now make sure that if a fandom in a series comes from a restricted work, it's not listed when a guest is browsing series blurbs.
- [AO3-6304] - Relatedly, series blurbs would always show up in bookmark listings for a certain tag even if that fandom's work in the series was restricted to logged-in users. That's also fixed now!
- [AO3-6471] - We have added word count information to bookmarks! You can now search, filter, and sort bookmarks by the length of the bookmarked work or series. If a series contains restricted works and you're not logged in, a series' word count will reflect only the works that are accessible to you.
- [AO3-7119] - We tweaked the way search queries work when searching bookmarks, so input is parsed more accurately and a "1k" and a "2k" tag won't be interpreted as the same tag anymore (for example).
Release 0.9.454
A small grab bag of fixes was released on January 26.
- [AO3-7264] - We employ certain measures to prevent spam on AO3, such as limiting how many times an action can be performed by a user in a certain time frame. We have now added an option to restrict new accounts more severely than older accounts when it comes to leaving and editing comments.
- [AO3-7238], [AO3-7262] - We added extra information to the details our spam-checking provider uses to determine if a comment is spam or not.
- [AO3-7045], [AO3-7060], [AO3-7248] - Some database clean-up and dependency updates.
Release 0.9.455
On January 28, we deployed some of the necessary changes to enable two-step verification for AO3 admin accounts.
- [AO3-6918] - These changes prepare the login interface for 2FA enforcement to ensure the greatest possible security for admin accounts.
- [AO3-7249] - Site admins, such as members of the Policy and Abuse committee, frequently need to look up a user's past usernames and email addresses. To speed up searches while we work on long-term performance improvements, we moved this information to separate tables.
Release 0.9.456
A collection of navigation and display fixes was deployed on January 30.
- [AO3-6869] - On devices running iOS, footnotes on the Policy Questions & Abuse Reports form were misaligned. Now everything looks tidy again.
- [AO3-7028] - In one of our public site skins, some pagination links had become unclickable. If you've been using the Low Vision Default skin, now you can page through a user's works in collections again!
- [AO3-7213] - On narrow screens, the "Suggest a Language" button on the Work Languages page was slipping behind the list of languages and couldn't be clicked. That's also fixed.
- [AO3-7247] - Fixed the broken link to the Fannish Next of Kin FAQ on the Technical Support & Feedback form.
- [AO3-7251], [AO3-7266] - Some code clean-up.
Down Detector -- the hot new social media site! ;)
Mar. 16th, 2026 01:43 pmmxcatmoonI have a confession:
I am very fond of Tumblr.
Hear me out. It's not quite like other social media platforms. It's got its own vibe and personality, a quirky one. It's like the home of the misfits.
Case on point: Tumblr is experiencing some issues currently. When AO3 is done, everyone flocks to Tumblr to cry about it. There's even a blog dedicated to the issue. Where do they go when Tumblr is down? Downdetector! Yes, they're using it as a social media site and flooding it with comments. People will hang out there until Tumblr is back up.
I'm not saying it's perfect. You must curate your dashboard carefully to avoid wank and drama. I'm not on any of the other sites so I can't tell you what X is like except what I've heard (and that's very bad). I can tell you I used to be on Facebook but couldn't take it anymore and left. For me, Tumblr is different. And from what I understand, it's not making a ton of money for anyone, so it's kinda forgotten these days and isn't considered one of the Big, Important Sites. That's a good thing, because the more popular something is these days, the worse it is. I think a lot of people there are the type who avoid sites like X
But don't tell anybody. Because we like that everyone has forgotten Tumblr exists.
😉
I am very fond of Tumblr.
Hear me out. It's not quite like other social media platforms. It's got its own vibe and personality, a quirky one. It's like the home of the misfits.
Case on point: Tumblr is experiencing some issues currently. When AO3 is done, everyone flocks to Tumblr to cry about it. There's even a blog dedicated to the issue. Where do they go when Tumblr is down? Downdetector! Yes, they're using it as a social media site and flooding it with comments. People will hang out there until Tumblr is back up.
I'm not saying it's perfect. You must curate your dashboard carefully to avoid wank and drama. I'm not on any of the other sites so I can't tell you what X is like except what I've heard (and that's very bad). I can tell you I used to be on Facebook but couldn't take it anymore and left. For me, Tumblr is different. And from what I understand, it's not making a ton of money for anyone, so it's kinda forgotten these days and isn't considered one of the Big, Important Sites. That's a good thing, because the more popular something is these days, the worse it is. I think a lot of people there are the type who avoid sites like X
But don't tell anybody. Because we like that everyone has forgotten Tumblr exists.
😉
BATMAN FACTS featuring A TALKING DINOSAUR who you should TRUST
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Music Monday: Bad Moon Rising by Credence Coldwater Revival
Mar. 16th, 2026 07:05 amstonepicnicking_okapiThe boys have a 3 hour early dismissal today for possible tornados and thunderstorms so this seems apt. March is in its lion phase at the moment here.